Chapter 138 Shui Bing'er
"Buzz—"
An icy blue light emanated from Shui Bing'er's body, reflecting the illusory image of the ice phoenix behind her.
At her chest, a jade-green soul bone emitted a soft halo—it was the soul bone of a 100,000-year-old Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, a treasure she had successfully fused with three years ago deep in the far north after a near-death experience.
This soul bone not only granted her the terrifying area-of-effect skill "Ice Explosion," but also possessed a unique innate domain—"Absolute Zero Domain."
When activated, the temperature within a hundred meters would plummet to near absolute zero, all energy flow would almost cease, and the enemy's movements and soul power circulation would be severely suppressed.
At this moment, this soul bone was resonating deeply with her martial soul and soul rings.
"It's here…"
Shui Bing'er suddenly opened her eyes.
Her pupils were pure ice blue, and deep within them seemed to soar the illusory image of an ice phoenix.
Her gaze was clear and calm, yet carried a detached indifference that looked down upon all living beings—a unique quality of a divine beast-level martial soul holder.
She sensed it.
That unseen call, that "Goddess Ranking" that had consecutively propelled seven powerful women to the top, had finally... turned its gaze upon the far north, upon Ice Phoenix Valley, upon her.
"Fourth on the Goddess Ranking..."
Shui Bing'er murmured, a hint of anticipation flashing in her eyes, "What kind of reward will it be?"
For the past three years, she had been cultivating diligently in the far north, detached from worldly affairs, but she had heard about the changes in the outside world from the occasional human soul masters who ventured there to hunt for soul rings.
The Ice Emperor's rise to the top, freezing thousands of miles.
The Demon Emperor's rise to the top, the deep sea boiling. Poseidon's rise to the top, the Sea God descending.
Bibi Dong's rise to the top, the End Realm.
The Snow Emperor's rise to the top, the Ice God's bloodline.
Ning Rongrong made the list, receiving the Nine Treasures Glazed Glass.
Qian Renxue made the list, receiving the Angelic Awakening.
Every one of those on the list received unimaginable fortune, their strength undergoing a dramatic transformation.
And now, it was her turn.
"What I want..." Shui Bing'er slowly stood up, her ice-blue dress fluttering without wind.
"I want the power that will allow me... to truly touch the realm of the gods."
The moment her words fell—
"Boom—!!!"
The sky above Ice Phoenix Valley was torn apart by an indescribable force!
Not a crack, but... the collapse of the entire sky!
The ninth phenomenon had descended!
But this time, its descent was completely different from the previous eight.
There was no pillar of light descending, no phantom of the list appearing first, but... the sky itself transformed into a gigantic, ice-blue eye!
That eye stretched for thousands of miles, its pupil reflecting the phantom of an ice phoenix soaring, its eyelids burning with ice-blue flames. As the eye opened and closed, the temperature of the entire far north plummeted by thirty degrees, even the wind and snow stopped for a moment.
All beings gazing upon this "Heavenly Eye," whether human or spirit beast, felt their souls frozen, their thoughts halted, and even fear unable to arise.
It was a gaze beyond mortal comprehension.
It was the gaze cast by something transcending the laws of nature.
"Ice Phoenix... Divine Eye..." Outside Ice Phoenix Valley, the Ice Emperor's expression changed drastically; she recognized the eye's origin.
It was the supreme divine power of the ancient Ice Phoenix clan's legends. "Legend has it that only Ice Phoenixes with bloodline purity reaching the level of divine beasts can trigger celestial phenomena and condense the 'Ice Phoenix Divine Eye' when breaking through a certain realm... This girl's martial spirit is actually this pure?!"
In the Pope's Palace of Martial Soul City, Bibi Dong suddenly stood up, her dark golden eyes fixed on the giant, ice-blue eye in the northern sky.
"This pressure... has surpassed the awakening of the Ice God bloodline of the Snow Empress!"
Her voice was low, tinged with disbelief. "Ice Phoenix... a divine beast-level martial soul... just what is the origin of this Shui Bing'er?!"
Deep sea, Demon Emperor's palace.
"That annoying aura..."
The Demon Emperor frowned, the abyssal demonic energy around him becoming stagnant due to the gaze of that eye.
"Ultimate ice is troublesome enough, and now there's an even purer one... Why does this era keep producing beings that can restrain me?"
High seas, Poseidon's ship's bow.
"Ice Phoenix... the supreme existence of avian martial souls."
Poseidon sighed softly, "Once this martial soul matures, the combination of its flight ability and ice control ability makes it almost invincible in aerial combat. And judging from the scale of this phenomenon... her potential is probably no less than that of the Snow Empress."
The core of the far north, the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave.
The Snow Empress slowly walked out of the Profound Ice Cave, looking up at the Ice Phoenix Divine Eye, a strange light flashing in her icy blue eyes.
"The Ice Phoenix... like my Ice and Snow Maiden, belongs to the same innate ice and snow species, but their paths are completely different."
She murmured to herself, "I represent the 'stillness' and 'eternity' of ice and snow, while she represents the 'movement' and 'soaring' of ice and snow... Interesting."
At this moment, inside the Ice Phoenix Valley, Shui Bing'er looked up at the enormous ice-blue eye in the sky. Far from being afraid, she felt a resonance deep within her bloodline.
She could feel that eye "looking" at her, scrutinizing her martial spirit, her soul bone, her soul ring, her soul... and her potential.
"Am I qualified?" she asked softly.
As if in response to her question, the pupil of the Ice Phoenix Divine Eye in the sky suddenly contracted!
The next moment, the soaring ice phoenix phantom deep within the pupil emitted a clear, resonant cry that pierced the heavens and earth!
"Screech—!!!"
As the cry rang out, the Ice Phoenix Divine Eye shattered with a deafening roar!
Countless ice-blue light spots rained down from the shattered eye, like a rain of light covering the entire far north.
Wherever the rain of light passed, ice and snow sublimated, transforming into pure ice-attribute energy that surged into the bodies of every ice and snow creature.
Countless soul beasts in the far north received a stroke of good fortune at this moment, their cultivation bottlenecks loosened, and their bloodline purity increased.
But the greatest rain of light converged towards Ice Phoenix Valley, and towards Shui Bing'er!
The instant the rain of light completely converged—"Buzz—"
A gigantic phantom of a ranking list finally materialized in the sky.
The border of the ranking list was woven from the patterns of ice crystal phoenix wings, each feather lifelike, as if it might take flight at any moment.
Nine ice-blue gems were inlaid on the border, corresponding to the mysteries of the nine ice and snow laws.
In the center of the ranking list, Shui Bing'er's figure appeared, standing on an ice lotus platform.
Behind her, the phantom of an ice phoenix spread its wings, seven soul rings floated, her soul bone glowed, and her entire demeanor was as cold and aloof as an immortal, yet also carried the majesty of a divine beast.
Immediately afterwards, the information from the ranking list flooded into the consciousness of all those who looked up at it.
[Fourth on the Goddess Ranking: Shui Bing'er]
[Age: Nineteen]
[Affiliation: Formerly Tianshui Academy, now a cultivator in the far north]
[Identity: Holder of the Extreme Cold Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, inheritor of a divine beast-level Martial Soul]
[Cultivation: Level 75 Soul Saint]
[Martial Soul: Extreme Cold Ice Phoenix]
(End of Chapter)